The Turkish Medical Association (Turkish: Türk Tabipleri Birliği, abbreviated as TTB) is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in Turkey.
[1] Membership is compulsory for self-employed doctors, but not for those employed by the government.
[2] Its main source of income is membership fees, which are regulated by the Ministry of Health, but it does not receive any support from the government.
[2] In 2012, the Turkish government created a new organization, the "Board for Health Professions", giving it many of the responsibilities the TTB previously had, including maintaining and enforcing ethics codes.
[3] On January 30, 2018, several senior members, including the TTB's chairman, Raşit Tükel, were arrested after criticizing the Turkish military operation in Afrin.